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struggle4progress

(118,273 posts)
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 02:32 PM Sep 2017

Dallas TX Task Force Recommendations on Confederate Monuments

The task force appointed .. to make recommendations on the future of Confederate monuments and symbols in the city has published their findings.

... the task force said the .. Lee statue .. and the Confederate Monument in Pioneer Cemetery, should be preserved and placed in a museum or educational site in North Texas with the proper context ...

.... The task force also recommended the removal of the Confederate Cemetery name as well as other .. parks with Confederate names; they recommended placeholder names of .. abolitionists, enslaved or human rights leaders ...

Several streets .. also bear Confederate names, and the task force recommended those .. be changed ...

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Dallas-Task-Force-Makes-Recommendations-on-Confederate-Monuments-448733153.html



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Dallas TX Task Force Recommendations on Confederate Monuments (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2017 OP
Fort Worth is also working out remedies of removing Confederate Names MagickMuffin Sep 2017 #1

MagickMuffin

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1. Fort Worth is also working out remedies of removing Confederate Names
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 02:37 PM
Sep 2017

Of course the further west of Tarrant County and the more rural and racist it becomes.

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